Four Chelsea fans given suspended jail terms
for racist incident from French court for their part in a racist incident before a
Champions League match against Paris
Saint-Germain. They have
also been ordered to pay the victim 10,000 euros (£8,496) in compensation.
The men were charged after video
footage appeared of them pushing a black man off a Paris metro train during the
incident in February 2015. Joshua
Parsons, a former pupil of the elite Millfield school in England, now
working in the building trade, and James
Fairbairn, a civil engineer, were the only two among the four to appear in
court. Both wore grey suits for the hearing where a video of the incident was
shown.Richard Barklie, a former policeman, and William Simpson, were tried in absentia. The incident in February 2015 before a Champions League match between PSG and Chelsea was filmed by a Briton, Paul Nolan, and published by the Guardian newspaper.The video showed commuter Souleymane Sylla repeatedly being violently thwarted in his attempts to get on a train at the Richelieu-Drouot station. Station CCTV footage also recorded the scene.
Parsons, Fairbairn and Barklie have
already been banned from football stadiums in Britain.
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